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ZIP drive 100mb internal problems

Hi there,

My NEC ZIP drive 100mb internal is behaving a bit oddly.

Whenever i try to write or erase a big file (10+ mb) it locks up. Sometimes it's light will flash from time to time while it is supposed to be writing, but apperantly nothing happens. Why? Is it a faulty drive?

Because of that whenever i want to erase something i have to format the disk, because formating works fine.

it sounds like part of the via pci latency problem [more info from this website for the abit kt7 motherboard

the problem relates to drives using the kt133a chipset

i had this problem and fixed it by flashing the bios to the latest revision [at the time 3R] and using the via 580_311 patch, which can be downloaded, either from the above link or from here

i found that i was unable to write or delete from the drive, although i could copy from it. in win98se the locks that resulted from trying would frequently pull the system down. the patch is a little slow but does work and means that the drive is usable.

hope that helps

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3.11 BETA - Improves performance in Win2K. Supports 686B southbridge and ATA100. Includes both a VSD and a Miniport driver. Miniport recommended. Also includes new IDE utility. Now integrated into 4.27 4-in-1 driver.

May also solve problems with Zip drives.

It says that it improves performance in Win2k, but i'm usin WinME. Can i still use this patch?